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2009-10 Annual Report

• June 2010-Newsweek ranks PCS 19th in the list of top US Public HS
• 12/09 U.S. News & World Report ranks PCS in the top ten public high schools in the nation and #1 Charter School in the nation
• 2008-National Blue Ribbon School
• December 2007-U.S. News ranks PCS # 2 public high school in the nation
• May 21, 2007-Newsweek recognizes PCS as among America's "Public Elite" High Schools
• 2007-California Distinguished School
• 2007-College Board names PCS  top AP World History program in the US.
• 2006-California Charter School of the Year

                          PCS-A School that Challenges and Rewards:

Pacific Collegiate School ’s mission is to provide exemplary, standards- based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of Santa Cruz County and bordering areas. Our vision is to offer any student the same quality of education offered by the most academically distinguished schools in California . Our graduates will be prepared to enter and thrive at the world’s finest colleges and universities.

In addition to a core college preparatory curriculum, Pacific Collegiate School will emphasize international, cross-cultural, and technological education in order to prepare graduates for life in the 21st Century. Pacific Collegiate students will be introduced to the rich variety of world cultures and become fluent in at least one foreign language. They will become proficient in the basic information technologies essential for cultural literacy in the 21st Century.